Who gives a crap? Are we going to have a National Day of Mourning or something? Do we get the day off? A lot of famous people died a year ago any day. Jobs does not get some special honor because he gave us the iPhone.

PC LOAD LETTER:Who gives a crap? Are we going to have a National Day of Mourning or something? Do we get the day off? A lot of famous people died a year ago any day. Jobs does not get some special honor because he gave us the iPhone.

/has iPhone//is grumpy

If Apple didn't suck as bad as it does now you would have a point. It's been downhill since that day.

Not being American I don't know him, but apparently Fred Shuttlesworth died on the same day, and he was a civil rights activist. Since everyone ignored his death last year because of Jobs perhaps this year he should get some notice?

You can understand a whole lot about Jobs when you consider his DSM IV entry. I think, once a period of "too soon" elapses, he would make an excellent case study in Borderline Personality Disorder and might even go on to help others better understand themselves.

cman:PC LOAD LETTER: Who gives a crap? Are we going to have a National Day of Mourning or something? Do we get the day off? A lot of famous people died a year ago any day. Jobs does not get some special honor because he gave us the iPhone.

/has iPhone//is grumpy

If Apple didn't suck as bad as it does now you would have a point. It's been downhill since that day.

The iPhone, a revolutionary gadget launched only 5 years ago, has become so phenomenally successful that it is now larger than all of Microsoft--a company that once dominated the tech industry and nearly drove Apple to extinction. And Apple itself has become the most valuable and profitable company in the world.

Because he revolutionized the technology industry...............by taking existing products and making them prettier and easier for the average person to use.

I put his contribution to the world of science just below Louis Pasteur, but just above Nikola Tesla ..because let's face it...what good is alternating current without an awesome device to use that power?